AgendaOrientationWeeks

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  • Notes:
    • Classroom Management (CM) and Technology Integration (TI) classes for these weeks are 8:00am - 11:20am in the Computing Center room 104
    • We may have guests dropping in at any time to join us and/or observe us in our iPad work.
    • 221 Teaching Assistant: Chelsey Oliver
  • Objectives for Orientation Weeks (first 5 classes):
    • get a sense of the expectations for the entire semester (Orientation Weeks, Module I, Module II, CM PD Conference) in these classes
    • explore the iPad as a personal tool as well as an educational tool
    • develop more confidence (more than you already have...no matter how much you have or don't have when the semester starts) in your comfort with risk taking when it comes to trying out and figuring out new technologies (hardware and/or software)
    • critique iPad apps based on criteria for critiquing any technology that you might want to use in your classroom
    • give a presentation on an iPad app in your discipline or appropriate to a general middle/high school classroom
    • as a group, create a listing of the contents of what we'd like to have in a textbook on Classroom Management, organize into chapters, assign chapters to teams
  • Project to complete during Orientation Weeks:
  • Project that will start during Orientation Weeks:

Date
 What We Will Do In Class Today
 What You Need To Have Done Before Class Today

W 9/2

Class 0
9:00-11:00
  1. welcome
  2. post cards
  3. who does what
  4. practicum calendar
  5. assignments & questions
 Due
  • have a good summer
  • bring a postcard
  • bring a sense of wonder

Th 9/3

Class 1
8:00-11:30
  1. quick logistics (restrooms, sippy cup rule, physical activity,...)
  2. iPad Intro
  3. sign up for REMIND
  4. break
    1. apple ID
    2. Dr. T send URL via REMIND
  5. ISTE standards
  6. a look at the syllabus in 3 parts
 Due

F 9/4

Class 2
8:00-11:30
  1. One-Minute Share (about your apps of passion)
  2. pdf annotation apps
    1. Type I and Type II
  3. double highlighter & other homework for Tuesday
  4. --break--
  5. QR reader to see prior years' databases
  6. iPads in your content area
    1. permission pages
    2. play with pdf readers/annotators on the double highlighter
    3. how to take screen shots of your app icon to add to database
    4. Wes Fryer e-book status check
    exit ticket--high 5 on overwhelmingness
 Due
  • find apps for your passion
    • Be ready for your One-Minute Share
    • Send an email to Dr. Theresa that shares a little about your 5 apps in the category you explored AND explains your rating criteria
  • start to personalize your iPad
  • bring your ISTE standards paper from Wednesday
  • bring your laptop AND your iPad

T 9/8

Class 3
8:00-11:30
  1. pre-assessment survey for blog and wiki building
  2. double highlighter follow up
  3. Classroom Management overview (analogy, kit, textbook, PD conference)
  4. intro to Classroom Management Textbook project
  5. TPR foreign language learning vs. this class
  6. blog vs. wiki
  7. creating your Classroom Management Kit
    1. add a page for what you want to learn about "classroom management"
  8. thinking homework: the "classroom management" conundrum--is there a term to replace it?
--break--
  1. set up a blog for this class on blogger
    1. the text from your email about 5 iPad apps in your passion area is your first entry
    2. your thoughts on SAMR model are your second entry
 Due

Work in Progress:

Th 9/10

Class 4
8:00-11:30
  1. Wes Fryer book
    1. get (or help others get) the e-book
    2. discuss "Acknowledgements" and "Tips for Reading this Book" in Wes Fryer's book
    3. look at blog entries for Wes Fryer chapter 1 due Monday
  2. iPads and ACTEM
    1. this is really about emerging technologies; iPads are just today's example
    2. ACTEM overview
    3. check your calendar
    4. student drivers for ACTEM
  3. SAMR and TPACK follow up
  4. time with content team (if appropriate, otherwise on your own) to develop a criteria in your content area and then describe it for each app
  5. add to the SAMR column
    in the class spreadsheet
--break--
  1. making an iBook about the app you'll present at ACTEM
 Due

F 9/11

Class 5
8:00-11:30
  1. Skype Buddies
  2. finalize textbook chapters
    1. reserve book conversation
    2. what will our chapters be? (four or five chapters is the goal)
    3. what should we call "classroom management"?
    4. submit your preferences
  3. humor in the classroom
    1. add humor to your classroom management kit
  4. social bookmarking
  5. Meaningful Engaged Learning intro
  6. iPads and practice for ACTEM Oct. 16
    1. pick up Friday Oct 9, have them over 4 day weekend plus 2 days before ACTEM
    2. TPACK and your presentation
    3. practice today with a partner
    4. refine your book for
      Tuesday
 Due
  • check out the CM books on reserve at Mantor
  • take the technology survey
  • think of or search for something funny related to your content area (appropriately so): a joke, a meme, a video under 1 minute, a cartoon,....
  • thinking homework: the "classroom management" conundrum--is there a term to replace it?
  • have your iBook finished; you will get feedback on it in class and have time to make edits but you need a finished draft in class to work with


Work in Progress
Tuesday 9/15 is really Module 1 but here's a sneak peak
  1. positive specific feedback and critiquing
  2. poster session practice
  3. giving feedback
  4. humor in the classroom
    1. add humor to your classroom management kit
  5. get your iPad ready to turn in
  6. Good night iPad
  7. MEL
 Due

Work in Progress